Originally published in 1995, The Music of African American Fiction
is a historical analysis of the tradition of representing music in
African American fiction. The book examines the impact of evolving
musical styles and innovative musicians on black culture as is
manifested in the literature. The analysis begins with the slave
narratives and the emergence of the first black fiction of the
antebellum years and moves through the Reconstruction. This is
followed by analyses of definitive fictional representations of
African American music from the turn-of-the-century through Harlem
Renaissance, the Depression and World War II eras through the 1960s
and the Black Arts Movement. The representation of black music
shapes a lineage that extends from the initial chronicles written
in response to sub-human bondage to the declarations of an
autonomous "black aesthetic" and dramatically influences the
evolution of an African American literary tradition.
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